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Stories, Ask HN, Show HN
Top stories
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American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time
1600
2
ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
1410
3
I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35
1383
4
Arwes – Futuristic Sci-Fi / Cyberpunk Graphical User Interface Framework
1326
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Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store
1313
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Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account
1169
7
Level 3 Global Outage
914
8
Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them
900
9
Scrollbar Blindness
877
10
Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs
856
Top Ask HN
1
How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” Stripe rule?
416
2
Who is hiring? (September 2020)
368
3
Captcha Alternatives?
192
4
Who wants to be hired? (September 2020)
184
5
How does your data science or machine learning team handle DevOps?
86
6
Has anyone built a SaaS for local municipalities?
75
7
How many of you are employed, self-taught SWEs?
64
8
How to Sell Software?
48
9
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2020)
46
10
Project ideas to learn CS fundamentals
33
Top Show HN
1
Learn how WebRTC actually works. A book on the protocols, not just APIs
667
2
Visualize Data Structures in VS Code
509
3
Healthcare Is Dumb
441
4
Vimac – Productive macOS keyboard-driven navigation
375
5
3D first person game rendered in CSS/HTML
285
6
Muse – Tool for Thought on iPad
266
7
ML From Scratch – free online textbook
259
8
ztext.js – JavaScript library that makes any font 3D
257
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Read The Count of Monte Cristo and others in installments in your email
220
10
Olaf – Acoustic Fingerprinting on the ESP32 and in the Browser
166
News, Tech Blogs, Scientific Publications and more
Tech news [?]
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Amazon deletes job listings for analysts to track ‘labor organizing threats’
518
2
A Saudi prince's attempt to silence critics on Twitter
334
3
Mozilla research: Browsing histories are unique enough to identify users
238
4
Apple blocks Facebook update that called out 30-percent App Store ‘tax’
231
5
Belarus turned off the internet – citizens hot-wired it
221
6
Arizona DMV Sells Drivers' Photos and SSNs to Private Investigators
189
7
Police across Canada are using predictive policing algorithms, report finds
186
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Even Google engineers are confused about Google’s privacy settings
170
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Apple Accidentally Approved Malware to Run on macOS
157
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Tech my dad banned in our house when I was a kid
144
News [?]
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I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35
1383
2
Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous efforts to protect privacy
611
3
After 48 years, Democrats endorse nuclear energy in platform
539
4
Blanked-out spots on China's maps helped us uncover Xinjiang's camps
487
5
Amazon drivers are hanging smartphones in trees to get more work
440
6
China Built a Vast New Infrastructure to Imprison Uighurs
424
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Tesla’s former CTO is building a giant lithium-ion battery recycling operation
421
8
Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (2018)
279
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How the Sacklers shifted $10.8B of an opioid fortune built on OxyContin
266
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Pinterest cancels office lease in unbuilt project, citing work-from-home shift
199
Scientific publications [?]
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First complete dinosaur skeleton ever found has finally been studied in detail
113
2
Missions to and Sample Returns from Nearby Interstellar Objects
96
3
The World of Legacy IT Systems
84
4
Anime-to-Real Clothing: Cosplay Costume Generation
75
5
Hypothesis: Bipolar disorder is an Epstein–Barr virus‐driven disease
68
6
New planets confirmed in machine learning first
63
7
A Neural-Based Program Decompiler (2019)
51
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Self-driving cars learn to read the body language of people on the street
24
9
A network-based explanation of why most Covid-19 infection curves are linear
16
10
Thermodynamics of computation: Quest to find cost of running a Turing machine
6
Dev Blogs [?]
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Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust
648
2
App Review process updates
541
3
Safari adopts the Chrome/Firefox extension model
443
4
GitHub Container Registry
345
5
Analysis of Today's CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage
271
6
Sendgrid under siege from hacked accounts
199
7
Yml Coding
97
8
Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part II
81
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Identifying People by Their Browsing Histories
64
10
Using machine learning to detect deficient coverage in colonoscopy screenings
54
Tech blogs [?]
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Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account
1169
2
TSMC and Graphcore Prepare for AI Acceleration on 3nm
144
3
New Federal Court Rulings Find Geofence Warrants Unconstitutional
129
4
Apple to start requiring written consent for third party API usage in apps
86
5
Twelve years later, Apple is still trying to erase mac.com email addresses
50
6
HPC Systems Special Offer: Two A64FX Nodes in a 2U for $40k
48
7
Best Consumer Hard Drives: August 2020
39
8
EUtility Electric Tractor is powered by a battery, not diesel
38
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California: Tell Your Senators Ill-Conceived “Immunity Passports” Won’t Help Us
36
10
An Analog IC Design Book Draft
17
FAANG+ [?]
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Bottlerocket, an open source Linux distribution built to run containers
347
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Building storage-first serverless apps with HTTP APIs service integrations
41
3
Bottlerocket, an open source Linux distribution built to run containers, goes GA
13
4
Bottlerocket, a new open-source Linux purpose-built to run containers
5
5
Amazon Halo – Health and wellness band and membership
3
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Stopping AD attacks and other post-exploitation behavior with AMSI and ML
3
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Domain-specific language model pretraining for biomedical NLP
3
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Microsoft Research: TrueSkill Ranking System
3
9
Replicated Data Consistency Explained Through Baseball (2011) [pdf]
2
10
Amazon Halo – Health and wellness band and membership
2
Misc and Hobbies [?]
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Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them
900
2
The potentially revolutionary Celera 500L aircraft
490
3
The surreal art of ‘unnatural lighting’
347
4
The Big Tesla Hack: A hacker gained control over the entire fleet
291
5
I Compiled NASA‘s Workmanship Standards into a Single PDF
283
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Drug cartel assassinates its enemies with bomb-toting drones
246
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US indictments of piracy group members throw top-tier piracy world into chaos
243
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Rethinking the App Store
168
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Don't Be a Sucker
148
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The mysterious Cold War case of unidentified aircraft descending on Loring AFB
127
Science News [?]
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Jacques Cousteau’s grandson wants to build the ISS of the sea
317
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Physicists found a new quantum paradox that casts doubt on a pillar of reality
186
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How satellite ‘megaconstellations’ will photobomb astronomy images
182
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Mathematicians Report New Discovery About the Dodecahedron
172
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Cloth masks do protect the wearer
172
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Feline coronavirus drug inhibits the main protease of SARS-CoV-2
120
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Coronavirus is most deadly if you are older and male – new data reveal the risks
115
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China again boosts R&D spending by more than 10%
113
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How close are computers to automating mathematical reasoning?
100
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Computer scientists attempt to corner the Collatz conjecture
84
Social [?]
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Does Facebook pay Apple 30% of revenue derived from ads made within its iOS app?
697
2
Deep learning job postings have collapsed in the past six months
471
3
Apple doesn't let you disclose their 30% IAP fee to your customers
301
4
Neuralink Progress Update [video]
281
5
Preparing Our Partners for iOS 14
259
6
Interview with Zig language creator Andrew Kelley [video]
200
7
Admiral Grace Hopper Explains the Nanosecond
93
8
Spotify censored Joe Rogan episodes
60
9
Blessed Are the JavaScript Developers
40
10
Testing a $1300 120,000lm water-cooled LED
40
Github repos and gists [?]
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Htop 3.0
604
2
A terminal-based presentation tool with colors and effects
342
3
D3 6.0
330
4
Ruby: We have decided to go forward to 3.0 this year
325
5
Handcalcs: Automatically render Latex equations from Python math code
277
6
Learn Vim (the Smart Way): a book to learn the good parts of Vim
240
7
Malloc Geiger Counter
238
8
Pluto.jl – a reactive, lightweight, simple notebook
235
9
The Lounge – Modern web IRC client designed for self-hosting
223
10
Italian Ruby
206
Wikipedia [?]
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Metcalf Sniper Attack
210
2
Albanian Civil War
68
3
Optical Tweezers
35
4
Agoge
35
5
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion
29
6
YBC 7289
10
7
Vasa (Ship)
7
8
Saturn's Hexagon
6
9
Long-Term Stock Exchange
6
10
Terra Preta
6
Blogs [?]
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Ethereum Is a Dark Forest
553
2
Why has college gotten so expensive in the last 30 years? A blank check in 1993
440
3
Life Is Short (2016)
346
4
A 189 Year Old Limitation on Inductor Size Has Been Broken (2018)
145
5
Photoreal Roman Emperor Project
91
6
How to Fix Gimbal Lock in N-Dimensions
66
7
Converting Boolean-Logic Decision Trees to Finite State Machines
44
8
The Monolith That Breaks Up Itself
31
9
The Crazy-Tiny Next Generation of Computers (2015)
27
10
Dopamine Ruins Your Motivation
18
Stackoverflow [?]
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What is a non-capturing group in regular expressions?
2
2
What is the point of an RSS item without a link, and what do I do with it?
1
Substack [?]
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The time it takes to run a paid newsletter
92
2
WebBundles are built for content-addressable networks
71
3
Originality is not the only way
33
4
Words, like ghosts, can haunt you forever
19
5
Software engineering lessons from the flight deck
16
6
Cyberdecks for High-Tech Low-Lifes
15
7
Audible is becoming more like Amazon Prime Video
9
8
Stripe: The Internet's Most Undervalued Company
7
9
Facebook, the PR Firm
6
10
VCBrags did one last thing before deleting their account
6